Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Reading Notes: Babbitt's Jataka Tales Part B

Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt Web source found here

The Wise and the Foolish Merchant:
  • One group lead by foolish Merchant gets tricked by demons to empty water jugs and then they are all killed
  • Next group realizes there are demons and refuse to be tricked

Granny's Blackie:
  • A woman raise an elephant from when he was a baby and then later when she is old the elephant helps her with hard work


A big kind elephant - image found here

Ideas:
  • What if instead of an elephant, the woman raises a demon who is good because of how she raises him?

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